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Do you understand the implication of the answer to that question being "No, and it cannot delegate those powers"? Congress would have to vote on giving approva
by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Do you understand the implication of the answer to that question being "No, and it cannot delegate those powers"?
Congress would have to vote on giving approval for each new drug, not the FDA's bureaucrats.
Congress would have to vote on each individual edge case for welfare programs (SNAP, Social Security, Medicaid, etc), not their respective agencies.
Congress would have to vote on which individual people get Pell grants, how much, and how much their parents are expected to contribute to their university schooling, not the Department of Education.
Congress would have to vote to approve contracts for every federal agency.
The federal government would not function without some degree of delegation.
- another-dave 2y agoLegislative powers, not all powers. You don't change the law every time a new drug gets approved, you grant it certification (the framework of which is based in existing legislation). You'd only need Congress to get involved if you wanted to change the approval process itself
- beaeglebeachedd 2y agoThe constitution arguably wasn't designed for a government that did much of what it's doing. Shouldn't be hard to pass an amendment to legalize it if it's that necessary right? We needed an amendment just to federally ban booze for God's sake.